00:15

A federal statutory body, the Australian Commission for Law
Enforcement Integrity (ACLEI) has been in existence since
December 2006 and is headed by the
Integrity Commissioner. The current Integrity Commissioner
is Michael Griffin AM.

There is also a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the ACLEI.

The Morrison plan for a new Commonwealth Integrity Commission (CIC) intends to retain
the ACLEI as one of two divisions within the CIC and expand the
number of government agencies within this first divisions
jurisdiction from twelve (12) to sixteen (16) otherwise it is
business as usual for the multi-agency ACLEI.

At the same time the Morrison
Government intends the over-arching CIC to have a second division
the Public Sector Division - without the full powers of
statutory anti-corruption commissions.

Monday, 17 December

21:39

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel's stubborn
endorsement of the UN Global Migration Pact has brought his
government to its knees and caused massive demonstrations against
the Pact in Belgium. Charles Michel now governs with a minority,
because the center-right Flemish N-VA has walked out over the PM's
move to have Belgium support a UN migration pact. The Prime
Minister is now trying to govern with assorted and reshuffled
Liberals and Christian Democrats. The upcoming Migration Pact has
divided international alliances: Austria, Hungary, the US, Israel,
Australia and several other states rejecting the accord.
[1]Belgium's migration minister, Theo Francken, commented on
Thursday, "It's way too pro-migration. It doesn't have the nuance
that it needs to have to also comfort European citizens." He said
that, although it was not legally binding, it was also not without
legal risks. He said that wide interpretation of human rights laws
in EU courts were "tying the hands of migration policy-makers."
[2]

The Belgian government has split apart after Prime
Minister Charles Michel ignored the objections of his ruling
coalitions biggest party and insisted he would sign the UN
migration pact.

The Flemish nationalist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party quit
the government following crisis talks over the weekend, prompting
Michel to announce he would travel to Marrakesh to sign the
controversial compact representing a minority government.

Stepping down as interior minister on Sunday, the N-VAs Jan
Jambon told local media I think that, formally speaking, we are
stepping down. We said that if the coalition goes to Marrakesh, it
will be without us.

The patriotic party had previously produced a list of 30
objections to signing the so-called Global Compact on Safe and
Orderly Migration including a lack of differentiation between
illegal and legal flows, and questions over whether the agreement,
which declares mass immigration to be inevitable, desirable and
necessary, could have a chilling effect on objective
journalism.

Vice Prime Minister Alexander De Croo rebuffed the N-VA for
branding the parties set to sign Belgium up to the UN document as a
Marrakesh coalition, asserting that ministers will continue to have
firm but humane migration policies because no one in this
government want....

21:26

The
PortalThe Intelligence
Hub for the Victory of LightSunday, December 16,
2018Yellow Vests and
the Vortex of ParisOn November 10th,
1793, there was an activation of Goddess of Reason and Liberty in
the Notre Dame church in Paris:https://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2017/11/goddess-reason-enthroned.htmlThat church was the
location of the temple of Isis in Roman times:https://gnosticwarrior.com/the-parisii-of-isis.htmlWhere initiates into
the Goddess mysteries still meet today:http://secretebase.free.fr/complots/edifices/paris/paris.htmExactly 225 years
after the activation of Goddess of Reason, certain Goddess
priestesses of the Resistance Movement came to the surface in Paris
and did a special planetary kundalini activation.The activation was
taking place from November 8th to November 11th, 2018, during the
meeting of the world leaders in Paris. The second basement DOES
exist, although the waitress denied it.This activation
served as a trigger for planetary kundalini awakening where people
will finally rise up against the oppression of the Dark
forces....

21:15

This comes courtesy of the Daily Mail - the photos from
Christmas Island came to us from Shaz of CI and were first
published here on this website. I can think of at least one
Australian war veteran who lives overseas but has to return for
medical treatment who will...

20:51

As we move towards the end of 2018 - the 7th year I've been at
this - I need your help to keep going more than ever. I wouldn't do
it if I didn't think is was worthwhile. I wouldn't do it if I
thought someone else would. And I...

20:37

TURC hearing into CFMEU officials and their apparent destruction
of evidence subject to TURC's Notices to Produce Monday, 21
September 2015 AT 2PM the Commission commenced its hearing, former
National President of the CFMEU Dave Hanna in the witness box. Ms
McNaughton opened by having Mr Hanna confirm the names...

20:15

Unbelievable. Covered up the video cameras. Destroyed tonnes of
documents as they were being called by the Royal Commission. Fought
the charges, didn't cooperate, plea of not guilty. And walks free
on a bond. An ex-union boss has avoided jail after being found
guilty of dumping and burning tonnes of...

We are in New York City, at a
ramen place near her apartment in Astoria, Queens, and Ms. Stone,
who stars in Orange Is the New Black, has barely touched her soup.
She tells me she hasnt been sleeping for the better part of a
year.

Its not just her 6-month-old baby
whos keeping her up, but her decision to come forward for the first
time and speak to me about her experiences with Geoffrey Rush, one
of the most powerful actors in her native Australia.

Geoffrey Rush

Most women who go public with
#MeToo stories are fearful for obvious reasons. There is the pain
of reliving traumatic experiences. There is the rage of not being
believed. And there is sometimes the discomfort of admitting, as
Ms. Stone readily does, that she didnt say no and at times even
encouraged some of his behavior. She did so, she says, out of fear
of offending a mentor and friend.

But Ms. Stone isnt just afraid of
the emotional consequences of talking about her allegations against
Mr. Rush, her onetime hero, including that he danced naked in front
of her in their dressing room, used a mirror to watch her while she
showered and sent her occasionally erotic text messages while she
was 25 years old and starring oppositeMr. Rush, then 59, on stage in
The Diary of a
Madman in 2010 and 2011.

It was great to engage with an audience that in the West is
increasingly viewed as conservative and intolerant. The Polish
journalist told me that this view is inaccurate and public opinion
is far more diverse on matters of immigration and refugees.

19:00

All this powerfully
supports our primary contention that the Bronze Age sea route in
the Atlantic took the Gulf Stream from the latitude of
Bimini/Georgia to the Latitude of the Isle of Lewis. Thus the
populations of northern Ireland and Western Scotland in particular
has to intermingle with populations in the SE USA.

The Atlantean fleet
sailed every year for well over a thousand years at the height of
the Bronze Age and the circle route sustained traffic after 1159 BC
right past the Roman era into the Northern Iron Age in
Europe. Plenty of folks made that trip and it is reasonable
to understand the populating of Eastern North America and plausibly
into Mexico and the Andes in pursuit of metal as well as driven by
this copper trade feeding Europe and the
Mediterranean.

Thus we have DNA
identifiers of Northern Europe and the Levant but nothing unique to
Eastern North America. It is thus highly plausible that
this human traffic has always been the big picture.

The actual transit
before 1159 BC was close and obvious as well. Even today it
is a summer time trip westward in a large row boat as has been
done. Then you had Lyonese to get you half way there and the
Azores as well and the Bahama Bank all above water. These all
were on the circle route as well.

Thus traffic starting
over ten thousand years ago is completely reasonable and even
likely as it was easy enough in the summer time. The same
held true for Australia and other supposed sea
barriers.

.

......

18:42

Governments and corporations are now
demonising cash, under whatever pretext the corporations think of
this month, in order to gain full access to the tax slaves
movements, which then can be used to control their lives.

Apparently now, if you save money for a
'rainy day' (plenty of those in Melbourne), then you're branded
with a negative connotation that being of a hoarder.

Many humans from the herd population love
the (digital) slavery they're in, i.e. being a 'product' that gives
data way to corporations for very little reward, like $2 for every
50 litres of fuel purchased, for surrendering their docket, which
contains the purchaser's history within that docket.

The forcing of people to go cashless is not
for the benefit to those people, but rather government and
corporations, although there are many arguments put forward, where
convenience is pushed as the main selling point.

18:19

Listeners to BBC Radio 4s Today programme on
December 15th heard the following (from 05:06here) in a news bulletin
presented by Alan Smith. [emphasis in italics in the original,
emphasis in bold added]

Smith: Australia says it now
recognises West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel but it wont be
moving its embassy from Tel Aviv at this stage. The prime minister
Scott Morrison has also acknowledged the aspirations of
Palestinians for a future state with its capital in East
Jerusalem. The divided city, where the Israeli
parliament is located, is not internationally recognised as the
countrys capital. Phil Mercer reports from Sydney.

Apparently BBC Radio 4 along with the BBCs
correspondent in Sydney is so used to using the politically
partisan term East Jerusalem that it has forgotten that although
Jerusalem was indeed divided during the nineteen-year period of the
unrecognisedJordanian occupationthat began in 1948, it was ...

18:03

The news would have its readers believe that
were in the end times that climate change has reached the point of
no return and the world is on the brink of nuclear wear.
Unfortunately the hopeful and inspiring stories tend to pass by far
too quickly, but if you look for them, theyre always there. Some
are the result of years worth of work, research and investments,
while others come about simplyby accident.

Take the Great Barrier Reef, for instance.
Coral reefs account for a measly 1% of the entire ocean on planet
Earth. Despite the miniscule amount of surface area they cover,
coral reefs provide food and shelter to one quarter of all marine
life. Reefs also support marine life that ends up in the human food
chain, feeding a whopping one billion of us.

Thanks to a little thing called bleaching,
about two thirds of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia has been
killed off due to a rise in temperature, thought to have been
brought on by global warming. The statistics are
alarming.

Thankfully, and completely by accident, Dr.
David Vaughan from theMote Marine
Laboratoryin Florida, may have found
a way to reverse that devastating loss.

Coral ordinarily takes 25 to 75 years to reach
sexual maturity, meaning it can take up to six years to plant 600
coral. This fact alone is one reason the bleaching of the Great
Barrier Reef is so alarming. But thanks to Dr. Vaughan, we may be
able to help coral grow forty times faster!

He had been trying to remove a
coral from the bottom of a tank when it broke into a dozen pieces.
To his shock, all of the pieces regrew to the same size in just
three short weeks, as opposed to the three years it had taken to
grow the original coral.

The process of fragmenting coral to encourage
regrowth is nothing new. In fact, the pro...

17:35

This month the ACCC released a long-overdue report into the way
Facebook and Google have changed the media in Australia and the
world. Here are a few quotes: ...the impact of digital platforms
(ie Facebook and Google) on the supply of news and journalism is
particularly significant. News and journalism...

16:29

Kanowna solar farm near Moree believed to be first to use both
DC optimisers and centralised DC-coupled inverters to cater for
battery storage and get around network connection hurdles. The post
Solar farms getting smaller, cheaper and smarter to overcome grid
hurdles appeared first on RenewEconomy.

16:21

A new paper with many authors
most prominently Joseph Henrich tries to measure the cultural gaps
between different countries. I am reproducing a few of their
results (see pp.36-37 for more), noting that higher numbers
represent higher gaps:

Distance from the U.S.

Algeria: 0.15

Australia: 0.03

Brazil: 0.07

Canada: 0.02

China: 0.17

Ecuador: 0.12

Egypt: 0.24

Ethiopia: 0.14

Georgia [the country]: 0.15

Hong Kong: 0.09

Indonesia: 0.19

Japan: 0.11

Malaysia: 0.12

Nigeria: 0.15

Switzerland: 0.06

Egypt is the most distant, then Yemen, with Canada as the
closest.

As for cultural distance from China, we
have:

Great Britain: 0.20

Hong Kong: 0.09

Japan: 0.14

Russia: 0.09 (not *so* far away)

Taiwan: 0.10

Vietnam: 0.06

Overall the numbers show much greater cultural distance of other
nations from China than from the United States, a significant and
under-discussed problem for China. For instance, the United
States is about as culturally close to Hong Kong as China is.

16:08

In hindsight, there were probably smarter places I
could have travelled to escape my addictive personality than
Eastern Europe. Especially when a recovering junkie can get given a
script no questions asked for morphine.

I could see the sun beginning to rise on the horizon
of the abandoned Templehof Airport in Berlin from the window of our
Airbnb. It was a nice change from the dirty backpackers I had been
staying in for weeks, which reeked of desperation and Lynx
Africa.

I had just polished off my second bottle of cheap
Merlot, and was having a shower with a male acquaintance I had
picked up at my hostel two nights prior. The bathroom was thick
with steam hovering above the polished tiles.

As we soon discovered, shower sex is not as
comfortable or convenient as it appears in porn; we were both
struggling to find a position without a plug or a tap poking into
one of our backs.

I had the great idea to pop a leg out of the shower
to give myself more wriggle room, only to glide along the wet floor
and smack my foot into the glass screen. Feeling a shrapnel-like
pain ricocheting through my leg, I looked down to realise that
while two toes remained in place, three were dislocated and hanging
sideways like limp biscuits.

In a state of shock and thankfully numbness from the
amount of red wine I had consumed I let out a loud, Fuuuuuuuuck!
and decided to Skype my mother for some free medical advice.

Youre going to have to crack them back in, and then
go to the hospital, she said with panic in her voice.

My friends, both supportive and utterly disgusted,
rolled me a joint for the pain and tried to convince me to go to
the doctor for a proper examination. However, being a naive
18-year-old with pre-existing addiction problems, I figured shell
be right and instead took a Valium and went to sleep.

Boarding a train to Prague the following morning,
the weight of my 65L pack and relapse hanging heavy on my
shoulders, I tried to disregard the internal throb that filled me
when the crevices of plastic baggies had been licked clean.

After climbing 287 steps to the top of the Prague
Castle, the external pain from the night prior had begun to sink
in. This was quickly eradicated by a trip to the Absinthe Bar,
where we sampled some Green Fairy, and the bud they sold us from
behind the counter.

Three caps, two...

15:56

At the request of many, I will be reviewing the case of a U.S.
Military hero, Major Matt Golsteyn, who is charged with murder. He
could face the death penalty from our own government after he
admitted to killing a Terrorist bomb maker while overseas.
@PeteHegseth @FoxNews Donald J....

14:19

Published on Dec 16,
2018European auto
resignations plunge, this is not a good sign, we are seeing auto
sales in the US and Europe decline. Home prices in Australia,
Canada and Europe are declining, the housing prices in the US are
also dropping, bubble is deflating. Q posted how the Fed is going
to be taken down by gold, Trump confirms this by his past comments
on gold. The timing will be everything but the build up to
contradict and bring the Fed down is in the works.Published on Dec 16, 2018Texas Judge rules
Obamacare is unconstitutional. Robert Mueller gives the 302's to
the Judge. Clinton answers questions under oath and can't remember
20 of them. The MSM is preparing for video and other news by
telling everyone do not believe what you see or hear. Anons
explains whats coming up.

13:34

As Australia goes to the dogs under the Morrison government, the
Australian Labor Party had its national conference in Adelaide this
last weekend.

Many were looking forward to this marking, not only a decisive
break from the policies of the Coalition, but the bipartisanship of
the past that has brought to Australia neoliberal economics and
crueler government.

Some welcome policies were announced. Among them promises to
take on more refugees, impose greater penalties on employers who
steal super from their employees, talk with first Nation
Australians about constitutional recognition and build 250,000 new
affordable homes over ten years and something was said about
reducing negative gearing. The conference adopted a policy that
will stop selling arms to Israel.

But on many big ticket items, little or nothing was said. This
conference had the air of a stage managed affair, with unity built
on saying as little as possible. It held onto a strategy of keeping
low and allowing Scott Morrison to hang himself.

Critics have pointed out that this strategy risks failing to
inspire people. The risk is real. Although the polls suggest
Labor will rock in next year, they also show that Labor leader Bill
Shorten is not particularly trusted.

Australia shares the worldwide phenomenon of a growing part of
the population not trusting politicians of the major parties. It
has its own particular causes here. The Coalition is suffering the
most, and it also is affecting Labor. Unless it can show that
it is sufficiently different, Labor stands to suffer extensively
when it government. We have seen this happen to social democratic
governments in Europe. It will happen here too.

We are no longer in times where business as usual is good
enough. There must be an acknowledgement that most are
becoming worse off, our rights are going, the First Nations are
moving towards Treaty as the road to equality and
self-determination. Public opinion has shifted is calling calling
for decisive action on tackling carbon emissions and an end to
offshore detention. Australia wants greed of the banks taken on in
earnest, corruption seriously tackled.

This is what is being called for. We saw groups make a noise
about certain issues that we important to them at the Conference.
They are not alone.

These are the issues where a clear stance is needed, to mobilise
popular enthusiasm and ensure a solid base of support for changing
Australias direction. Getting people on side depends on building
trust and not merely slanging off at the other side.

No commitment was given to basic matters such as, raising
reversing the fall in the wages share of national income, the
minimum wage, putting into place a new an...

13:23

The Strategic Framework for Suicide Prevention in
NSW 2018-2023 was developed by the NSW Mental Health
Commission and the NSW Ministry of Health in collaboration with
people with lived experience of suicide attempts or losing a loved
one to suicide, government agencies, mental health organisations
and experts in suicide prevention.

The Framework identifies five priority action areas to reduce
suicide in NSW:

Building individual and community resilience and
wellbeing
To help people cope with tough times

Strengthening the community response to suicide and
suicidal behaviour
To help people recognise those who are at risk of suicide, and take
steps to support them

Supporting excellence in clinical services and
care
To ensure people have access to appropriate, high quality clinical
services and care, including broader supports and
services

Promoting a collaborative, coordinated and integrated
approach
To reduce duplication and gaps

Innovating for a stronger evidence base
To know and use interventions that work to prevent suicide.

At one point in his blog, Danny also mentions that on the Hathaway
Research International website there is an area titled "Our past
research projects." Among the listing are three of particular
interest:

1. "1992-1994 Field investigations of anomalous aerial phenomena
for private research institute."

2. "1997 Field investigations of anomalous aerial phenomena for
private research institute."

Intrigued, by this material, I decided to undertake some further
research on George D Hathaway, his work and his research
findings.

Back to 1989

I recalled a blog post I had written in July 2017 about the UAP
interests of Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein. In that post I cited
the following extracts from Jacques Vallee's "Forbidden Science:
Volume three."

"Hyde Street Thursday 18 May 1989.

Crown Prince Hans-Adam von Liechtenstein was in town yesterday with
his consulting engineer from Toronto, a man named George Hathaway
who helps him study the phenomena with the hope of discovering new
forms of energy production..."

Hyde Street Monday 22 June 1989.

George Hathaway, the Canadian engineer who works with
Liechtenstein, tells me he has been making contact with all leading
UFO researchers who had ideas about energy or propulsion systems at
the request of the Prince, who is also sponsoring studies on
abductions...He gave me some insight into his (and the Prince's)
theory there is an extraterrestrial force that is monitoring and
controlling man's drive into space. "It's a question of how far
we'll be allowed to go before some other entities put the lid on
what we do with our little rocket firecrackers. We ha...

12:53

17 December 2018: AFTINET convener Dr
Patricia Ranald
writes in the Guardian on the risk that Adani could
sue our government for millions through
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), should their mining
licence be cancelled by a future government.

Yet another example of why Labor should implement
its policy against ISDS in all trade agreements, and remove it from
current deals like the TPP.

12:00

I am not one who makes much of the festive season, but inspired
by the example of my favourite blog, Thom
Hickeys Immortal Juke Box, here are five
favourite Christmas songs.

Five

The King, sung here by Canadians Loreena
McKennitt and Cyril Smith, from Loreenas Christmas album To
Drive the Cold Winter Away, hails from a long tradition of
Wren King songs.
The king of the title is the wee wren, the king of all birds, as
many old songs tell it. Through December until Twelfth Night
(the sixth of January), it was common among Celtic-speakers in
Brittany, Wales, Manx, Scotland, and Ireland for children and
adults to cruise their neighbourhoods cadging food, money or booze
in return for seeing a Wren that they had captured. This particular
King Wren song dates from the eighteenth century, although the
heavy weaponry was added in the nineteenth.

Health, love and peace be all here in this
placeBy your leave we shall sing, concerning our KingOur King is well-dressed in silks of the bestIn ribbons so rare no king can compareWe have travelled many miles over hedges and stilesIn search of our King unto you we bring.We have powder and shot to conquer the lotWe have cannon and ball to conquer them all.Old Christmas is past, twelve tide is the lastAnd we bid you adieu, great joy to the new

Four

Of all the trees that are in the wood, the holly
bears the crown. Northumbrian Kate Rusbys rendering of
the old English carol The Holly and the Ivy
is gorgeous. I reblogged Thom Hickeys
tribute to this lovely song earlier this month. It is
worth another look and listen. The lyrics are so bucolic, so
timeless:

The rising of the sunThe running of the deerThe playing of the merry organSweet singing in the choir

11:59

SCUs Andy Croaker with a pot of the
black salve. Some samples have proven highly toxic and others
completely inactive.
Photo Leigh Jensen/Southern Cross University

Is black salve, the much-feted skin cancer cream, a miracle cure
or a horror story? New research from Southern Cross University
(SCU) proves the latter in the first international study to
quantitatively assess its dangerous ingredients.

The sale of black salve is illegal in Australia so the SCU
research team analysed 13 black salve products purchased from
different online sellers around the world.

Like acid

Its similar to playing a game of Russian roulette with the
majority of black salves tested posing a significant risk of harm
to patients.

Some black salves contained very high concentrations of
compounds likely to kill any tissue they came in contact with,
putting patients at risk of significant scarring and deformity.

One salve contained a compound at a concentration over 900 times
that needed to kill normal skin cells; its clinical use would be
similar to applying a strong acid to the skin, said Mr Croaker.

Other black salves had undetectable levels of cytotoxic
compounds meaning they would not react to cancer tissue giving
patients a false sense of security that their skin lesion was not
cancer. This could delay skin cancer diagnosis which for some skin
cancers could put patients lives at risk.

No cure

Mr Croaker, who works at the Sawtell Medical Centre, cautioned
against people self-administering black salve.

DIY may be okay for renovatin...

11:32

What: The 23rd year of this nationally renowned
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speakers, soundbaths, yoga, workshops, chant, breathwork and much
more. Each day features a full program of events included with
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the A&I Hall in Bangalow.

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11:17

Container Ship entering
Newcastle Harbour. A Sydney grab for cash imposed costs on New
England exporters that are only now emerging.

On 10 December 2018, the ACCC (Australian Competition &
Consumer Commission) announced that had instituted proceedings in
the Federal Court against NSW Ports Operations Hold Co Pty Ltd and
its subsidiaries Port Botany Operations Pty Ltd and Port Kembla
Operations Pty Ltd for making agreements with the State of New
South Wales that the ACCC alleges had an anti-competitive purpose
and effect.

We are alleging that making these agreements containing provisions
which would effectively compensate Port Kembla and Port Botany if
the Port of Newcastle developed a container terminal, is
anti-competitive and illegal, said ACCC Chair Rod Sims.

The following day, 11 December 2018, the Port of Newcastle released a commissioned report on the economic
impact of a container terminal at the Port of Newcastle. This
suggested (among other things) that a modern container terminal
would cut land transport costs for northern NSW businesses by $2.8
billion by 2050. This would, according to Port of Newcastle CEO
Craig Carmody, increase exports from from Northern NSW including
the Hunter by $1 billion by 2050

"Businesses in Newcastle, Singleton, Tamworth, Gunnedah, Port
Macquarie, Kempsey, Liverpool Plains and Narrabri can look forward
to savings of more than $500 per standard container, if they
shipped their goods through Newcastle rather than Port Botany or
Port of Brisbane," Mr Carmody said.

With these actions, the originally secret agreements preventing the
Port of Newcastle competing against Port Botany and Port Kembla in
the container trade finally entered full public gaze. It had been
some time coming.

Genesis

In April 2013, then NSW Treasurer Mike Baird announced that a consortium, NSW Ports, had
agreed to pay $4.31...

10:16

The Ballina National Party candidate, Ben Franklin,
has defended a complaint made against him for establishing a
campaign office in close proximity to that of
sitting Greens MP, Tamara Smith.

Nationals MLC Ben Franklin was
referred the clerk of the Legislative Assembly according to Ms
Smith, yet The Echo understands the location of his new
Ballina office breaks no parliamentary regulations.

Ms Smith toldThe Echo the
office is misleading the electorate because it implies he is the
local MP. The guy is ruthless, she said.

The NSW seat of Ballina encompasses
Ballina and Byron shires.

With the election slated for March,
Franklins government believes it has a good chance of winning the
seat and has been spending big on the Ballina
electorate.

Its perhaps the biggest spend ever
on the seat of Ballina, which has seen decades of neglect. The term
to try and win votes through spending on an electorate is commonly
known as pork barrelling.

Despite Ms Smith claiming his office
is just metres away, Franklin told The
Echohis office is on an
entirely different street.

He said,This is a very strange contention. In no way am I suggesting I
am the local member! My office has the signage of a usual and
standard campaign office the sort that all parties set up for their
candidates in each seat they are contesting. It says my name and
the seat I am running for. Frankly it would be quite strange
if it said anything else!

The fact that the office is situated
in River Street is simply because that is the main street in the
largest town in the electorate which is no doubt exactly the same
reason that Tamara has her electorate office close to
there!...

09:51

A coalition of environment, unions and faith groups protested
outside the Labor Partys national conference in Adelaide on Sunday,
calling for the party to stop the expansion of the fossil fuel
industry.

On the plus side, EDO NSW has endorsed the partys commitment to
create a national Environment Protection Authority.

Protesters demanded a stop to oil drilling in the Great
Australian Bight, preventing Adani and other coal mines in
Queenslands Galilee Basin and an end to fracking and gas
exploration, in the Northern Territory, Western Australias stunning
Kimberley and the Pilliga Forest in NSW.

The Wilderness Societys South Australia director, Peter Owen,
said it was, insane Australia is opening up new oil, gas and coal
frontiers when we know we need to stop burning fossil fuels.

Height of irresponsibility

Expanding the fossil fuel industry is the height of
irresponsibility and not an option if we are to have any chance of
providing our children with a liveable climate

Its also concerning that many of these fossil fuel frontiers are
in pristine areas such as the Great Australian Bight, Western
Australias stunning Kimberley and NSWs biggest inland forest, the
Pilliga. The Great Australian Bight whale nursery is a completely
inappropriate place for risky deep-sea oil drilling, especially as
we hurtle towards catastrophic climate change.

We now know we must act immediately to avoid locking in
catastrophic climate change. Allowing the fossil fuel industry to
expand would negate Labors good work in promoting renewable energy.
Its time for the Labor Party to show national leadership and commit
to stopping the expansion of the fossil fuel industry when it sets
its election platform at this national conference.

Philippa Rowland, president of Multifaith SA, said, people of
faith in Australia feel the urgent need for an ethical response to
threats posed to vulnerable communities from escalating climate
impacts across our region all climate policies must include a rapid
transition away from fossil fuels.

09:48

Yellow vests protest continued throughout France for the fifth
week over the weekend. This is despite some concessions made by
President Macron. This has not been enough. They want him to
resign.

This movement has evolved into much more than a protest against
a tax on fuel, to become a force calling for a major change.
Perhaps this is best summed up in that there is a call for an end
to government for the rich, to government for the majority.
Ordinary people are seeing their living standards declining and
dont want this to continue

French President Emmanuel Macron
announces a series of financial measures including a rise in
minimum wage to appease the Yellow Vest protesters after four weeks
of nationwide demonstrations.

Back in France, police have continued try to break up
demonstrations with tear gas, water cannon, rubber bullets and
flash bombs. Side street approaches, Metro rail stations and
freeways leading into Paris were blocked, in order to prevent
protesters from joining the main group.

The following shows protesters
kneeling with hands over their heads last week, being suddenly
attacked by police. This adds credence to the allegations that the
riots have been sparked off by the police.

08:25

Travellers are being warned to avoid the Pacific Highway between
Ballina and Woodburn during the Xmas to New Year period, with
delays of up to 90 minutes predicted by Roads and Maritime Services
(RMS).

To add insult to injury, new night works will commence from
tonight at New Italy and Pimlico just as the peak travel season
kicks in.

The RMS says the Bruxner Highway or Summerland Way will be
better choices for motorists hoping to avoid the blood-pressure
raising trip.

Further south, motorists can expect to take 10 minutes extra to
get through Coffs Harbour (its bypass wont commence until after the
Ballina to Woolgoolga section is finished).

08:17

A very personal message from Charles before today's show. My
ex-wife resolutely said frequently: "The Show MUST Go On", whatever
the adversity. Yesterday, she succumbed to rampaging cancers,
losing a battle begun in June 2012. The title of this presentation
certainly does not refer to her. But I will share...

07:46

Palestinian and Israeli officials were oddly united in
expressing bitter disappointment in Australia's 'half-way' decision
to recognize West Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state, and
the move also faced criticism at home. Canberra is to open a
defense and trade office in Jerusalem after it formally recognized
West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison
announced on Saturday. Relocating the country's embassy, however,
will only take place after a two-state solution is reached. Until
then, Australia will hold off on its decision to recognize East
Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine. The Palestinian Authority
Foreign Minister immediately rejected and condemned the decision,
accusing Morrison of a "total bias" towards Israel and seeking to
"appease the Zionist lobby" in Australia. "The recognition of West
Jerusalem as Israel's capital must be accompanied by recognition of
East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine," Riad al-Maliki said.
The same...

07:42

Two male drivers were arrested in Tweed on Sunday (December 16),
one for being four times over the alcohol limit and the other for
driving on an expired licence.

About 12.02am, police were attending another incident in Seaview
Street, Kingscliff, when they saw a vehicle mounting the gutter and
driving erratically.

Police then followed the vehicle and stopped it a short distance
away.

After the driver returned a positive roadside breath test, he
arrested and taken to Kingscliff Police Station where he returned a
reading of 0.256.

He admitted to drinking 12 full strength VB beers before
attempting to drive the vehicle. The male was charged
with high range PCA, his licence was suspended. The male will
appear at Tweed Heads Local Court 04/02/19.

About 11.14am, police stopped a vehicle on Kennedy Drive, Tweed
Heads, after the registration plates did not match the vehicle.

They spoke to the male driver who handed them an expired QLD
drivers licence.

Police conducted checks that revealed that the vehicle had an
expired registration and driver was disqualified from driving.

Police had suspicions about the driver and conducted a search of
vehicle, which they say contained property from Palm Beach in QLD,
which had previously been reported stolen. The driver was arrested
and taken to Tweed Heads Police Station, where he was charged He
will appear at Tweed Heads Local Court on February 2, 2019.

04:43

Several Notches Above Ransomware An extortion scheme which
sought to terrorize people into paying over BTC made global
headlines over the course of the week. The threats happened
worldwide, at a minimum being reported in the US, New Zealand, and
Australia. The bomb threats demanded $20,000 in BTC in exchange for
the terrorists to give

04:34

Here is yet another installment in our ongoing series, Why We Dont
See More Sincere Islamic Reformers. A death Fatwa was issued
against me: Australian imam of peace goes into hiding after Islamic
preacher from Pakistan calls for him to be killed, Daily Mail
Australia, December 16, 2018: A fake Australian imam has claimed an
[]

04:05

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck 203 kilometres north-west of
Carnarvon in the state's north-west on Sunday night, according to
the US Geological Survey. The quake occurred at a depth of 10
kilometres and struck at 10.26pm local time.

03:53

The pieces were already put
in place during the Wentworth federal by-election, a hopeless,
needless gambit that reduced the Coalition governments majority
whilst giving the outgoing Prime Minister Malcolm
Turnbull a crack at some vengeance. His successor,
Scott Morrison,

03:29

Germany's cyber security authority says claims that Huawei is
spying on customers are not backed up by evidence and has urged
caution before boycotting the Chinese telecommunications giant.
"For such serious decisions like a ban, you need proof," head of
Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Arne
Schoenbohm told Spiegel. Comment: Actually, you don't. Just ask
America... or the UK. Proof is an out-of-date concept for these
people. All you need is allegation. Huawei is accused of having
ties to Chinese intelligence, and countries like the US, Australia
and New Zealand have recently blocked it from being part of
building their 5G internet networks. According to Der Spiegel, the
US is pressuring other countries like Germany to do the same. In
March, Schoenbohm told telecommunications company Telekom there
were "currently no reliable findings" to back up US security
agencies' warnings about Huawei. Germany's main mobile network
operators, Vodafone, Telekom and...

02:49

Malaysia and Indonesia tried to strong-arm Australia into calling
this off. So it is good of Morrison to stand up to this
intimidation and not give in to it, as all establishment
counterterror analysts would have recommended. After months of
conjecture Scott Morrison makes announcement on embassy in Israel,
News.com.au, December 15, 2018: Prime Minister []

02:38

China is set to introduce maximum residue limits (MRLs) of 200
parts per billion (ppb) or lower for glyphosate in all imported
final food products and raw materials including grains, soybeans
and other legumes before the end of 2019, according to Sustainable
Pulse sources. The Chinese introduction of low MRLs, which are
officially based on health concerns following the classification of
glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015 by the
International Agency for Research on Cancer, has been expected by
both U.S. and Australian farming organizations for some time.
China's action would likely decrease the global use of glyphosate
as a desiccant. The practice, known as desiccating, pre-harvest
spraying or crop topping, is favored by many 'conventional' farmers
as a way to hasten the even ripening of grains, such as wheat, oats
and barley, as well as legumes and other crops such as sunflowers
and potatoes, even though it is not a recommended use of the
increasingly controversial...

02:37

For parents enduring daily fights with their sons about video
games, the chilling video of Western Sydney man Luke Munday
allegedly hitting his partner as she begged him to stop playing
Fortnite was a manifestation of their worst fears this week.

Violent and aggressive reactions in children as young as eight
when they are asked to stop playing are not uncommon, said Game
Quitters founder Cam Adair.

Addiction to video games is forcing thousands of people into rehab
clinics.

Its unfortunately not uncommon, violence and aggression are
quite frequent reactions of people who are made to stop, he said
from the Chang Mai outpost of Sydney addiction centre The
Cabin.

We speak to a lot of parents who are at their wits ends, they
dont know how to make their sons stop.

Mr Adair estimates that there are 10 to 50 million gaming
addicts across the globe, with that number set to rise.

The volume of people seeking help is double or triple what it
was a year ago, and I think itll keep going up. Australia is a
really significant market for gaming companies, and thus fertile
ground for a video game addiction. Lots of people are
suffering.

Beginning in childhood, an addiction to video games can have
devastating consequences.

Last month, Sydney man Daniel Chapman, 22, was convicted of
fatally stabbing his father Steven Chapman with a 14cm blade when
the pair began arguing about Daniels refusal to stop playing
computer games and come to the dinner table in October 2016.

The marsupials varied diet could help safeguard some of
Australias fungi and forests

A small endangered marsupial with a taste for
truffles may be a linchpin in one kind of Australian forest and
the evidence is in the animals poop.

Northern bettongs feast on truffles, the meaty, spore-producing
parts of certain fungi. Plenty of animals eat a selection of these
subterranean orbs from time to time. But analyses of the scat from
northern bettongs (Bettongia tropica) reveal that the marsupials eat truffles from a wider
diversity of fungi species than other critters, including some
that no other animals appear to favor, researchers report November
22 in Molecular Ecology.

Thats an important role because these truffle-producing fungi
form beneficial relationships with tree roots, helping trees pull
nutrients and moisture from soil. Theres been a whole raft of
published studies showing that those fungi give plants an edge,
says Andrew Claridge, an ecologist for the New South Wales National
Parks and Wildlife Service in Queanbeyan who wasnt part of the
study.

Australias eucalyptus forests host hundreds, or possibly even
thousands, of truffle fungi species, says study coauthor Susan
Nuske, an ecologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences in Ume. Different species seem to be specialized to
associate with particular trees or perform certain roles, so
maintaining that diversity is key. By spreading truffles spores via
scat, bettongs help keep the fungal community diverse and, by
extension, the forest healthy, say Nuske and her colleagues.

But...

00:40

Science may confirm that the Earth is, in fact, a sphere
and not flat, but there are still hundreds of
thousands of people who believe otherwise. For this exact reason,
Australian YouTuber Wolfie6020
started his channel.

Though Wolfie6020 has created many videos explaining why the
flat Earth movement is nonsensical, there are some Flat-Earthers
who believe they can convince him otherwise. Recently, fellow
YouTuber Flat Out Hero presented Wolfie6020 with a $100,000
challenge. Because he had nothing to lose, Wolfie6020 accepted
it.

As can be viewed in the video below, Flat Out Hero explains that
the challenge is to fly from point A to point B to point C, and
then back to point A, with the distance between each point being
the same. A 90-degree turn must also be taken at every point. The
bet was worth $100,000. Boasted Flat Out Hero, Its impossible, but
dont tell the globetards that! This is the final nail in the ball
Earth coffin, and I am happy to be the one to hammer it in!!!

As IFLScience reports, the described shape is impossible
on a flat plane because an equilateral triangle would not have
angles bigger (or smaller) than 60 degrees. But on the surface of a
sphere, it is perfectly feasible.

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Wolfie6020 shared his flight plan in a...

00:16

Throughout the year there are periods
where I receive scam calls up to twice a week.

Sometimes I am warned about my
imminent arrest for tax evasion, sometimes I am informed that I
have compensation money coming to me from a motor vehicle accident
in which I was allegedly involved, but most often I am told by a
fake Telstra representative that there is something wrong with my
computer [substitute various alternative
scenarios here] and that my Internet service will
be cancelled unless I power up my PC and follow
instructions.

I stopped listening to their spiel
years ago and now simply hang up.

However, telephone and email scamming
is now ubiquitous and peak scam is on us for another holiday
season.......

00:15

On 13 December 2018 Australia's 'interim' Prime Minister and
Liberal MP for Cook, Scott Morrison, announced that his
government intended to
protect religious freedom in Australia and to protect the rights of
Australians to be themselves by way of a new piece of
legislation titled the Religious Discrimination
Act.Not a line of this legislation appears to
have been put down on paper to date even though it is apparently
expected to come before the Australian Parliament in the seven days
or so it will sit before the May 2019 federal election.One would have thought that religious
freedom and diversity of faith was thriving in Australia
givenover
127 different formal manifestations of religious
faith/spirituality exist in
its cities, towns and
villages without ongoing overt community discord
or institutionalised discrimination.Even former
Liberal Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock concedes
the Religious
Freedom Reviewhe led
found little evidence that discrimination is occurring in
Australia. That lack of
hard evidence at population levels mean that government cannot
reliably assert that religious discrimination as a form of harm is
an existing problem requiring the 'solutions' it is
prop...

20:37

While a Huawei executive faces possible U.S. charges over trade
with Iran, the Chinese tech giants ambition to be a leader in
next-generation telecoms is colliding with security worries
abroad.

Australia and New Zealand have barred Huawei Technologies Ltd.
as a supplier for fifth-generation networks. They joined the United
States and Taiwan, which limit use of technology from the biggest
global supplier of network switching gear. This week, Japans
cybersecurity agency said Huawei and other vendors deemed risky
will be off-limits for government purchases.

None has released evidence of wrongdoing by Huawei, which denies
it is a risk and has operated a laboratory with Britains government
since 2010 to conduct security examinations of its products. But
the accusations, amid rising tension over Chinese technology
ambitions and spying, threaten its ability to compete in a
sensitive field as carriers prepare to invest billions of
dollars.

This is something thats definitely concerning Huawei at this
stage, because there is a political angle to it and a business
angle, said Nikhil Bhatra, a senior researcher for IDC.

Huawei is no ordinary electronics supplier. The company founded
in 1987 by a former military engineer is Chinas first global tech
brand and a national champion at the head of an industry Beijing is
promoting as part of efforts to transform this country into a
technology creator. It has Chinas biggest corporate
research-and-development budget at 89.7 billion yuan ($13 billion)
in 2017 10 percent more than Apple Inc.s and foreign customers can
draw on a multibillion-dollar line of credit from the official
China Development Bank.

That puts Huawei at the heart of strains over the ruling
Communist Partys technology aspirations, competition with Western
economies and ties between companies and government, including
possibly spying.

Do we have to be worried about Huawei and other Chinese
companies? Yes, I think we have to be worried, said Ansip, the
trade blocs vice president for a digital single market.

The company says it is employee-owned and operates
independently. It denies it designs equipment to allow
eavesdropping or that it is controlled by the Communist Party a
stance critics including some U.S. senators say is doubtful in
Chinas state-dominated system. The company notes it uses the same
global components suppliers as Western manufacturers.

As Palestinians and the Arab League on Saturday
condemned Australias recognition of West Jerusalem as Israels
capital, the move was somewhat surprisingly defended by one Arab
nation Bahrain.

The Arab League in a statement said it strongly condemns
Australias move which it called irresponsible and biased and
contrary to international law. It warned that the decision would
only encourage the occupation to continue its aggression,
arrogance, settlement and defiance of international resolutions and
added that the move could have serious ramifications for
Arab-Australian relations.

But Bahrains Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa
took issue with the statement, saying in a tweet: These are
irresponsible statements. Australias position does not hamper the
legitimate demands of the Palestinians and first and foremost East
Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital. It also does not contradict
the Arab Peace Initiative.

Israel and Bahrain do not have diplomatic relations, but are
said to have solid clandestine ties. Both countries see in Iran a
strategic threat.

Earlier this month Al Khalifa tweeted support for
Israels operation to expose and destroy Hezbollahs cross-border
tunnels and in May said the Jewish state...

18:27

I dont know for sure that McCain was tried and executed or even
that he was murdered by lethal injection. I suspect the
story is true. The source I got it from (G5 at Gumshoe) seems to be
ex-CIA and has provided mostly very believable stuff. The
smallness of the job (I mean, come on, the guy was old and was
presumably unarmed) adds to its credibility, since, for an element
of the CIA to have done such a job is not just tiny, it is
nano-tiny.

They kill people all the time who arent usually targets as soft
as McCain. The...

16:17

I recently read this rather interesting article Children of Ted:
The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolytes (John H
Richardson, New York Magazine, December 11, 2018) which left me
feeling curious as to what is, in fact, the Continue reading

13:57

On the 14 December 2018 as parents were preparing for the
Christmas holidays the WA government informed the community that
they would be introducing the No Jab
No Play legislation into the parliament in early
2019. This legislation is designed to exclude unvaccinated children
from childcare centres and kindergartens with the stated purpose of
putting an end to the States low child immunisation rates.

Please note that the government has not claimed that this policy
is to improve the health of children.
This is a serious omission because health policies should only be
implemented if they are demonstrated to be improving health. Roger
Cook cannot make this claim about the current vaccination schedule
because childrens health has significantly
declined as the vaccination rates have increased over the
last two decades. There has been a 5-10 fold increase in these
preventable chronic illnesses as the emphasis on vaccines has
increased.

This is a direct correlation to the expanded vaccination program
and the chronic diseases that are increasing have been listed as
being associated with vaccines for six decades by the
pharmaceutical companies. In addition, the toxins in
vaccines are a plausible cause of the illnesses increasing in
children yet doctors are not informed about these ingredients in
their education and therefore they are not fully informing parents
about this medical intervention.

The government is misusing the word unvaccinated in its
No Jab No Play policy. By unvaccinated
the government does not mean those who do not receive any vaccines.
In 2018 unvaccinated means anyone who does not use all
of the 16 or more vaccines that the government has
arbitrarily recommended on the national program. This means all
adults under this definition have been unvaccinated for decades but
this has not been a problem in the community and there is no
increased threat from these diseases in 2018.

The No Jab No Play policy that Roger Cook wants
to implement will prevent healthy children who have not received
the full schedule of 16+ vaccines from enrolling in pre-schools and
receiving an early childhood education. In addition to this
discrimination based on injecting toxins into healthy people, it
will put a huge burden on parents who need childcare facilities in
order to go to work and earn a living.

This discrimination is being introduced without any
public scrutiny of the science and...

Church Times UK

Cardinal Pell convicted in child-abuse case

THE most senior Roman Catholic figure in Australia, Cardinal
George Pell, has been found guilty of five incidents of historical
sexual abuse of choirboys in the 1990s. Cardinal Pell had denied
the charges.

The unanimous decision in the Victorian County Court came after
the jury in a previous hearing was unable to reach a verdict. He
will be sentenced in February.

The decision cannot be published in any Australian media because
of a suppression order. Various media outlets are currently
contesting the ban, imposed by Judge Peter Kidd on the grounds that
coverage could prejudice other legal actions involving the
Cardinal.

Cardinal Pell faces a trial in March next year on separate child
sexual-abuse charges relating to the 1970s. However, the courts
verdict has been widely disseminated in Australia through internet
sites and soc...

10:35

This week Katharine Murphy talks to Menna Rawlings, the
outgoing British high commissioner to Australia, who manages the
close relationship between the two countries. They delve into the
highs and lows of her time in Australia, including the challenges
of navigating diplomacy in the age of WikiLeaks, our complicated
relationship with climate change and the positive impact of
migration Continue reading...

07:45

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that his
government will recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
However, he said Australia's embassy would not move from Tel Aviv,
until a peace settlement was achieved. He added Australia also
recognised the aspirations of the Palestinians to a state with a
capital in East Jerusalem. The status of Jerusalem is one of the
most contested issues between Israel and the Palestinians.
Opposition Labor party leader Bill Shorten said he would reverse
the decision if he won next year's elections. US President Donald
Trump drew international criticism last year when he reversed
decades of American foreign policy by recognising the ancient city
as Israel's capital. The US embassy was relocated from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem in May.

07:13

Dear readers. If you want a Christmas present for
yourself, I'd recommend treating yourself to David
Sedgwick's BBC:
Brainwashing Britain? (hot off the presses).

I'm just a few pages away from the end of a first read-through and
I've enjoyed every page of it.

It's the book about BBC bias that I've been
waiting for, and I wish I'd written it myself.

It covers a lot of ground (from Antifa to Israel,
from Grenfell Tower to Owen Jones), with a good deal on the BBC's
biased Brexit coverage, though its recurring focus is on the BBC's
hostile coverage of the Trump presidency.

And I think it absolutely nails the BBC, again and
again and again.

(I'll be bringing you endless highlights from it over the coming
weeks).

First, as the BBC presenter put it, "no one said that saving the
planet would be easy". Yes, it was global warming, and an interview
with the right kind of BBC guest for this issue: the intensely
activist former Tory minister John Gummer (Lord Deben). He wants
the present (centre-right) Australian government chucked out
because of its policies on climate change. The BBC presenter didn't
defend the Australian government or challenge His Lordship.

Second, delaying Brexit and that 'second referendum', and an
interview with Brexit-disliking Stephen Bush of The New
Statesman, who very much talked the BBC talk on the matter and
was treated as if he were an impartial sag...

03:17

Bush, Clintons, Vatican, Royals, Hollywood,
CIA, UK PM, Baptists into Pedophiliahttps://beforeitsnews.com/v3/celebrities/2018/2475542.htmlPraises filling the
airways about President HW Bush were a little hard to stomach
during his funeral on Dec. 5. Bush helped form the CIA which after
World War II, brought Nazi Mind Control experts into the US,
Australia and Canada to torture and kill an estimated thousands of
children bred for the purpose.
CIA/Vatican Torturing and Trafficking of ChildrenBush was also said
to be behind the murder of President John Kennedy after he went
after the CIA and tried to return the US dollar to a gold standard.
I have been told by two CIA sources that G.H.W. Scherff (Bush) was
actually indicted on Sept. 10, 2018 for crimes against humanity,
child trafficking, sedition and treason said Whistleblower Benjamin
Fulford. He allegedly plea-bargained a deal with the military
tribunal hearing his case, to be executed/suicided to keep his
legacy intact for his family and the sheeple. Trump was said to
have signed the death order.Bushs death has in
no way solved the child exploitation problem. Even today the CIA
was believed to use US Taxpayer dollars to fund an international
Vatican-run Child Sex Trafficking, Gun and Drug Running Ring in
order to gain power over world affairs through blackmailing
political elites. http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/pages/243/590/stories.htmlPresident Trump
began a war against this child exploitation when he paid a visit to
CIA Headquarters the morning of his inauguration. Now two years
later Trump has been able to accomplish what Kennedy was denied:
within the next couple of weeks mass arrests were expected on
63,233 federal indictments against political and global elites that
have been filed in federal courts across the nation just this year.
Most were said to involve charges of pedophilia done under funding
of the CIA and Bush Cartel.Just in the few days
since the Bush funeral Trumps War Against Pedophilia was found to
extend worldwide. On Dec. 9 a Pedophile Ring was busted in Canada.
Police referred to the massive bust as...

03:15

On Friday, as the Bitcoin price fell by around six percent
against the U.S. dollar, several reports claimed that the dominant
cryptocurrency dropped in value due to bomb threats. One report
from Business Insider Australia, for instance, stated that
following an email blast of bomb threats in New York, the price of
the crypto asset

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00:47

Flash floods have caused havoc for some in Melbourne on Saturday
afternoon, with flash flooding turning backyards, suburban streets
and ponds into gushing rivers. A Christmas party at a Pakenham
housing estate in the city's outer southeast was called off
Saturday afternoon when heavy rainfall halted celebrations.
Organiser Samantha Thorpe said a little pond nearby became "like a
raging river". "It has never happened like this before."

00:16

Seventeen people have been rescued by helicopter and 100 people
are stranded in their cars on a flooded Hume Highway in northeast
Victoria. With more than a month's worth of rain already fallen
across parts of northeast Victoria as wild weather rages across the
state, authorities say some people have not heeded warnings about
driving into floodwaters. "We've seen people that have had to be
rescued from the roofs of their cars, 17 people in total, and 100
people have been stranded just to the south of Wangaratta,"
Victoria State Emergency Service chief officer Tim Wiebusch told
reporters.

00:16

Facing thousands of lawsuits
alleging that its talc caused cancer, J&J insists on the safety
and purity of its iconic product. But internal documents examined
by Reuters show that the company's powder was sometimes tainted
with carcinogenic asbestos and that J&J kept that information
from regulators and the public.

J&J didnt tell the FDA that at
least three tests by three different labs from 1972 to 1975 had
found asbestos in its talc in one case at levels reported as rather
high.

J&J has been compelled to
share thousands of pages of company memos, internal reports and
other confidential documents with lawyers for some of the 11,700
plaintiffs now claiming that the companys talc caused their cancers
including thousands of women with ovarian cancer.

A Reuters examination of many of
those documents, as well as deposition and trial
testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the
early 2000s, the companys raw...

00:15

After more than
two years without a tenant one of Graftons largest retail outlets
has a new tenant.

The store at 51 Prince St,
formerly tenanted by failed electronics retailer Dick Smith, has
been leased to the Australian Electoral Commission to be used as a
vote counting centre in the upcoming state and federal
elections.

The commercial manager at Ford and
Dougherty Natasha Watkinson, said the lease was for just six
months, but would be a welcome change to the main street after
being so long without a tenant.

She said the owner has given the
building a new coat of paint to cover up the previous tenants
corporate colours.

...

Saturday, 15 December

23:32

The Powering Past Coal Alliance announced on Friday that Sydney
and Melbourne had joined the Alliance at an event: Accelerating the
global coal transition. This follows the Australian Capital
Territory joining in September 2018. Other states and businesses
that joined at COP24 included Israel, Scotland, Senegal, and
Scottish Power. The Alliance, formed in Bonn in 2017 at COP23, now
includes 80

17:07

I was recently re-reading John B Alexander's book "Reality
Denied." (2017. Anomalist Books, San Antonio, Texas.) In
chapter one he relates his experiences working for Robert Bigelow's
National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS.) On page four,
Alexander writes of Bigelow "...NIDS was not his first foray into
supporting PSI research. For a time, Angela Thompson had done work
at the Bigelow Foundation..." I wondered just who Angela Thompson
was, so conducted some research.

"Dr Angela Thompson Smith's primary qualifications were in nursing
and social work in the U.K. She gained her BSc in Psychology at the
University of Wales, in Cardiff; her M.S. at the Facility of
medicine of Manchester University, England and later, her PhD. in
Psychology with Saybrook University, San Fransisco, CA. Dr Smith
continued her education with united Way of Southern Nevada/UNLV
where she completed the certificate in Non-profit management.

Dr Smith has a wide experience of research and management having
worked as a research analyst at the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and, later as a staff member with
the
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory, at
Princeton University, New jersey. In the southwest, Dr Smith became
Research Coordinator with the Bigelow Foundation and taught
professional; development courses through the University of Nevada,
Adult Continuing Education program.

Following five years as a staff member of PEAR (1987-1992) Dr Smith
was employed as Research Coordinator with the Bigelow Foundation
(1992-1994.) Prior to
The Bigelow Chair in Consciousness Studies at The University of
Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), before the Consciousness Research
laboratory at UNLV, and before the
National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) in Las Vegas,
there was the Bigelow Foundation. Incidentally, according to the
Secretary of Nevada business name search, NIDS is still
listed as an active business name as of 2018.

17:00

Here are the answers with discussion for this Weekends
Quiz. The information provided should help you work out
why you missed a question or three! If you havent already done the
Quiz from yesterday then have a go at it before you read the
answers. I hope this helps you develop an understanding of Modern
Monetary Theory (MMT) and its application to macroeconomic
thinking. Comments as usual welcome, especially if I have made an
error.Question 1:

A national government can run a balanced fiscal position (taxes
equal spending) over the economic cycle (peak to peak) as long as
it accepts that, after all the spending adjustments are exhausted,
their strategy will ensure that households and firms overall spend
more than they earn that is, run down previous savings or
accumulate more net debt.

The answer is False.

Note that this question begs the question as to how the economy
might get into this situation that I have described using the
sectoral balances framework. But whatever behavioural forces were
at play, the sectoral balances all have to sum to zero. Once you
understand that, then deduction leads to the correct answer.

The trick in the question is that it invites a confusion between
the factual (accounting) statement a government deficit (surplus)
equals $-for-$ a non-government surplus (deficit) and the
proposition put.

The households and firms overall do not exhaust the
non-government sector. So what happens when the governments runs a
balanced fiscal position to the private domestic sector balance
(the households and firms) depends crucially on what happens to the
external sector.

To refresh your memory the balances are derived as follows. The
basic income-expenditure model in macroeconomics can be viewed in
(at least) two ways: (a) from the perspective of the
sources of spending; and (b) from the perspective
of the uses of the income produced. Bringing these
two perspectives (of the same thing) together generates the
sectoral balances.

From the sources perspective we write:

(1) GDP = C + I + G + (X M)

which says that total national income (GDP) is the sum of total
final consumption spending (C), total private investment (I), total
government spending (G) and net exports (X M).

Expression (1) tells us that total income in the economy per
period will be exactly equal to total spending from all sources of
expenditure.

We also have to acknowledge that financial balances of the
sectors are impacted by net government taxes (T) which includes all
tax revenue minus total transfer and interest p...

16:00

We've written in the past about things like "super
injunctions" in the UK and elsewhere that often put a huge and
near absolute gag order on writing about a famous person enmeshed
in some sort of scandal, and apparently Australia has such a thing
as well -- and it's now scaring off tons of publications from
writing about the fact that George Pell, the Vatican's CFO and
often called the "3rd most powerful person in the Vatican"
was convicted on all charges that he sexually molested choir
boys in Australia in the 1990s. However, the press is barred
from reporting on it based on one of those gag orders. The Herald
Sun in Australia did post a brilliant, Streisand
Effect-inducing front page display about how it was being censored
from publishing an important story...